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Often your rig will get hung up before it hits bottom The hooks will knot up as if you are wearing a twisted necklace around … Read more

When you’re floating across some sweet fluke terrain and you get a tickling bite, then nothing, you’re hung up. A loop of leader material comes … Read more

First you rig foam beads that get the bait up off the bottom where it’s visible to fish and they can sniff around it, then … Read more

There’s nothing fancy about a chicken rig. It’s just piece of gear designed to help you work a bait along the bottom. A weighted line … Read more

“Your bait’s not going to go anywhere unless you move it forward with your rod tip. That’s why it gets frustrating. Your rod tip isn’t … Read more

The live mackerel hooked up with the circle hook, which buried itself in the bait. It never swung around to the corner of its mouth, … Read more

The boat drifts too fast and your jig is still sitting on bottom like a stone. Then you make another cast and by the time … Read more

Dropping a hook in some seemingly benign looking water isn’t enough. Tying off 30 feet of rope because it seems secure doesn’t mean you won’t … Read more

When your kite line runs out while still short of desired depth, you panic. Why? Because you viewed line capacity as a straight length issue … Read more

In offshore trolling, when you set out a bait that’s too wide, you know it. Your pole tip quiver with weight on it; the halyard … Read more

It’s happening. You’ve got three rods on a downrigger cable. Your spoons are stacked up. You’re trolling a good-looking lake. On your fish finder, you … Read more